As you might expect, converting the 1888 building was quite an undertaking, but it’s nothing owner Mark Strachan can’t handle. Strachan owns a local construction company, which has built many bars and restaurants around the Bay Area. Still, this was special.

“A bunch of my friends own clubs,” he says, “but this one’s mine. Everything in there is top notch; that’s the advantage of having a high-end construction company”

Capone’s will be something of a hybrid restaurant and nightlife venue with a 1920s-era motif; staffers will dress up in period zoot suits and flapper dresses and there will be live music on Fridays and Saturdays. Cocktails have similarly themed monikers such as The Dillinger, Baby Face, Machine Gun Kelly, Alcatraz, and, of course, the Al Capone.

Food, from executive chef Damien King-Kostelac, consists of modern American small plates. Dishes include semolina-battered fried calamari, a classic Nicoise salad, and petit filet with lobster mashed potatoes and balsamic reduction with seasonal veggies such as Lollipop kale. The classically-trained King-Kostelac, who studied to be an architect before returning to the kitchen, has cooked all over the country, most recently serving as executive sous chef at San Francisco’s Town Hall restaurant.